How to make mounted external drives visible to appliances (and to Proxmox itself?)

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How to make mounted external drives visible to appliances (and to Proxmox itself?)

I'm running Proxmox VE 2.0 on an HP Proliant microserver. I mounted an external drive by accessing as root via ssh. Everything seems to be fine there and I can see all the folders in the mounted drive doing 'ls' from the terminal.

I'm at a loss as to how to manage this external drive via the Proxmox GUI. The external drive doesn't show up in any of the nodes. That's not the most important thing, though. Basically what I want is to be able to connect to this external drive from the different appliances I have installed in the VE. When I get into the appliances I have no way to see the external drive. When I use VirtualBox I am always able to connect to the external drives from any of the VMs. With appliances in the Proxmox VE, though, I don't see how one can do this. I would really appreciate it if someone could lend me a hand. Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: How to make mounted external drives visible to appliances (and to Proxmox itself?

I have managed to get manual bind mount working (very slick) however still working on automagiclly getting things to happen when containers are restarted. I am sure other have this working and know more than me.

Re: How to make mounted external drives visible to appliances (and to Proxmox itself?

Ok i have it working now i put this in /etc/var/vz/conf/202.mount not sure if openvz/proxmox uses variables so i hard coded everything not very elegant, but im not a coder. If someone could point me to a better or more correct script that would be cool however it tested this with a reboot of pve host and a reboot of the container both work perfectly mounting and umounting. I have not found which log this shows up in yet to check for errors and the like.